Pros don"t care about equipment - yeah right....

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[Gozo Zyreruna]

i recalled timo boll has like seven TB bats in his bag.

 

[jonol]

Timo Boll has stated he is not superstitious at all. He just glues them all at once the same way each time, and then plays with whatever bat for the day. The next day he plays with another fresh bat.

Whereas Zhang Jike is really meticulous. He has videos where he sands the top layer of his blades and explains how he will glue differently depending on the venue he plays at. A fair chunk of what he says about equipment sounds more like placebo than anything. More about the ritual of doing these things giving him the confidence that his equipment is "correct" and not due to any meaningful physical differences.

My opinion: If you're playing at an amateur level, there is no point obsessing over minute details, because the things that are deciding your matches or improvement are not the fact that you used 1 layer of glue on the blade instead of 2, or that you didn't sand the very top layer of your blade to make it have a softer touch.

Use the same blade and rubbers for a long period of time, have fun and focus on improving your strategies and your technique. That's 90% of the improvement process. Spending your time focussing on the 10% is just taking away valuable time that you could be spending on the things that will help you much more.

 

[NextLevel]

Timo Boll has stated he is not superstitious at all. He just glues them all at once the same way each time, and then plays with whatever bat for the day. The next day he plays with another fresh bat.

Whereas Zhang Jike is really meticulous. He has videos where he sands the top layer of his blades and explains how he will glue differently depending on the venue he plays at. A fair chunk of what he says about equipment sounds more like placebo than anything. More about the ritual of doing these things giving him the confidence that his equipment is "correct" and not due to any meaningful physical differences.

My opinion: If you're playing at an amateur level, there is no point obsessing over minute details, because the things that are deciding your matches or improvement are not the fact that you used 1 layer of glue on the blade instead of 2, or that you didn't sand the very top layer of your blade to make it have a softer touch.

Use the same blade and rubbers for a long period of time, have fun and focus on improving your strategies and your technique. That's 90% of the improvement process. Spending your time focussing on the 10% is just taking away valuable time that you could be spending on the things that will help you much more.

I completely disagree, being an amateur is not as important as having a fairly mature playing level after significant training and coaching

 

[longle]

the pros they have 4-5 blades of the same name, an average amateur mostly has the same number of blades but with different brands, composition, with many more different rubbers.

talk about variables and combination matrices..

 

[passifid]

Timo Boll has stated he is not superstitious at all. He just glues them all at once the same way each time, and then plays with whatever bat for the day. The next day he plays with another fresh bat.

Whereas Zhang Jike is really meticulous. He has videos where he sands the top layer of his blades and explains how he will glue differently depending on the venue he plays at. A fair chunk of what he says about equipment sounds more like placebo than anything. More about the ritual of doing these things giving him the confidence that his equipment is "correct" and not due to any meaningful physical differences.

My opinion: If you're playing at an amateur level, there is no point obsessing over minute details, because the things that are deciding your matches or improvement are not the fact that you used 1 layer of glue on the blade instead of 2, or that you didn't sand the very top layer of your blade to make it have a softer touch.

Use the same blade and rubbers for a long period of time, have fun and focus on improving your strategies and your technique. That's 90% of the improvement process. Spending your time focussing on the 10% is just taking away valuable time that you could be spending on the things that will help you much more.

He Also made a video of gluing his bat and he weighs them to 0.1g and wrights the weight on the sponge to help him know the hardness and if they are too soft (light) he will return them to the company. So yeah he isnt superstitous but isn't carefree about it at all.

 

[ShakehandJpenCpenEnjoyer]

Be me:

Bring different 6 rackets to training

Combination of shakehand, cpen, and jpen. 1 ply, 5 plies, 7 plies. Outer or inner carbon. Questionable chinese carbon layer, alc, orange alc, zlc, szlc and so on. Chinese, japanese, and esn rubbers. Inverted, tacky, grippy, pips, ox. With booster or without.

Get confused every time.

???

Loss. No progress made at all and stuck at having skill issue.

 

[passifid]

Be me:

Bring different 6 rackets to training

Combination of shakehand, cpen, and jpen. 1 ply, 5 plies, 7 plies. Outer or inner carbon. Questionable chinese carbon layer, alc, orange alc, zlc, szlc and so on. Chinese, japanese, and esn rubbers. Inverted, tacky, grippy, pips, ox. With booster or without.

Get confused every time.

???

Loss. No progress made at all and stuck at having skill issue.

Just use CPEN and PIPS when you're playing players far below your level for fun and then use the proper bat when you have a real match.
It works for me to improve and have fun!

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

TB has seven TB ALC blades and he is a pro.

Gozo has two SK7s. If he buys two
more then he has four which makes him a half a pro aka semi-pro.

 

[Egon]

TB has seven TB ALC blades and he is a pro.

Gozo has two SK7s. If he buys two
more then he has four which makes him a half a pro aka semi-pro.

It will be a long way to Timo Boll, but you will catch up with Jorgic

 

[zeio]

My opinion: If you're playing at an amateur level, there is no point obsessing over minute details, because the things that are deciding your matches or improvement are not the fact that you used 1 layer of glue on the blade instead of 2, or that you didn't sand the very top layer of your blade to make it have a softer touch.

I think it's better to limit the scope of the term "amateur" here, as the top amateur scene can look like the following in East Asia.

Best player of the club I play at below, HK42 up against HK3/WR16 (a few months before he cracked into the top 10)

Against a former CNT player that had turned to coaching for many years at that point